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Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p>
The New Mexico State University sign at the corner of Union Avenue and Sam Steele Way in Las Cruces.<\/p><\/div>\n
The list of 126 positions New Mexico State University is eliminating — 89 that are currently vacant and\u00a037 that are filled — includes a variety of campus jobs.<\/p>\n
The university released the list<\/a> on Thursday in response to a public records request. It’s the first time the public has been able to see the full list.<\/p>\n And actually, though NMSU Chancellor Garrey Carruthers has said 126 jobs are being eliminated<\/a>, that isn’t quite right, as the list reveals. One vacant professorship that was shared by\u00a0two colleges is being cut, but it was counted twice because it was a half-time job in each college. Counting that as the one position it actually was\u00a0reduces the list of eliminated jobs to 125.<\/p>\n Three vacant facilities technician positions were initially counted as job eliminations, but those positions aren’t being cut. They’re being downgraded. That reduces the list of eliminated jobs to 122.<\/p>\n Carruthers announced earlier this month that the women’s equestrian team would be defunded effective immediately — but he reversed courses the next day and said the university would continue funding the team\u00a0for one more year<\/a>. And yet\u00a0the list of eliminated positions for the 2017 fiscal year — which\u00a0began July 1 — still includes equestrian head coach\u00a0Robin Morris-Walters, whose job is continuing for now. It also includes a vacant assistant coaching position that NMSU’s athletics director has said will be filled<\/a> for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n